Governance of Biodiversity Conservation in China And Taiwan

between Taiwan and mainland China were severed. Activities of Japanese capitalists in Taiwan were part of the strong state-busin ...

environmental protection but also neglected other issues such as labor welfare and women’s rights. Pent-up pressures for reform ...

appear to influence policy making, or is it more likely to follow government officials’ plans? China It is difficult to compare ...

impact of public opinion on policy-making when we examine the Nujiang Dam case in Chapters 7 and 8. Finally, to answer a general ...

a larger number view other social problems as more important. Contrasting with China, economic development does not trump enviro ...

environmental carrying capacity in many parts of China. Large public projects such as the Great Wall and Grand Canal – ruined e ...

engage in the trade-offs that perhaps are essential to improve environmental conditions, but this depends on when the question i ...

Eckstein, Alexander (1977), China’s Economic Revolution, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, p. 21. Ibid, p. 24. See Economy ...

This survey was done by the All-China Environmental Federation and supervised by State Environmental Protection Administration ...

Current status of species and ecosystems in China and Taiwan Accelerated economic development in the last 50 years has had the ...

North China: plains and low hills (with deciduous forests) of the heavily populated regions north of the Yangtze River. Inner M ...

‘[T]he concept of freely shared information is not widely accepted in China. Many individuals or organizations are unwilling to ...

‘(Criteria used in listing?) There are some criteria, such as economic significance of the species and the like, but the definit ...

volumes, is the most comprehensive evaluation of the status of wild fauna and flora in China. One of the directors of the projec ...

44 Table 3.1 Distribution of species across China’s provinces Province Area Forest Mammals’ Birds’ Plants’ Protected Priority** ...

45 Shanxi 156000 8100 88 159 59 4 C Sichuan 567000 68108 384 432 464 63 A Taiwan 35760 19695 111 560 148 18 B Xinjiang 1600000 1 ...

species whose population is at or below replacement levels; 2) rare and valuable species, endemic to Taiwan; and 3) species requ ...

47 Source: Xie Yan (2005), Biodiversity Working Group, Chinese Academy of Sciences. Note: Circled areas represent areas with rea ...

throughout this volume: the areas of China in greatest need of species and habitat protection are in the most remote and poorest ...

of comprehensiveness of earlier surveys. Still, the change in degree of endangerment is startling. Species Endangerment in Taiwa ...